More than 50 cities in this country offer a surprising service called a Tool Library. Among them – Charlottesville – where people pay a small fee to join and can then borrow one or more than a thousand tools.
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To help protect native plants and animals, ecology students at Virginia Tech experimented cooking dishes that use invasive plants and animals as ingredients.
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Young people are becoming more interested – and more active – in Virginia politics. One group of college students worked to turn out the vote this year.
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"The continuation of 2017 Trump tax cuts continues high advantages to the top two percent" Delegate Vivian Watts said. "The new cuts continue the emphasis on high income."
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An international collaboration to track individual monarchs kicked off this fall, including James Madison University.
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Perhaps you’ve seen the meme which reads: You don’t stop dancing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop dancing. A dance instructor in Roanoke is the very embodiment of this adage.
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This year’s National Christmas Tree is a red spruce from Highland County Virginia. Spruce are a rare species of trees in Appalachia. They suffered major damage in 2024 during Hurricane Helene.
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The November election for the House of Delegates saw record-breaking numbers for campaign finance.
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Early voting starts December 22nd with election day set for January 6th.
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A bill passed during the 2025 General Assembly session directed the crime commission to establish a panel that would explore convictions Mary Jane Burton was involved with.
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“We all see the ugliness around us and there are several folks working very hard to see what can be done in the Commonwealth,” Democratic Delegate and Latino caucus chair Alfonso Lopez told Radio IQ.
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